From: alain245@videotron.ca   
      
   On Oct/12/2020 at 09:15, Greg (Strider) Moore wrote :   
   > "Dean Markley"  wrote in message   
   > news:b3ba9dee-3b09-479a-86a8-4a5698b98222n@googlegroups.com...   
   >>   
   >> On Saturday, October 10, 2020 at 11:46:52 AM UTC-4, Alain Fournier wrote:   
   >>> Imagine you are out one night and you see a plane flying over your head.   
   >>> Someone might note that it is 10 km high. Now imagine that exactly   
   >>> behind the plane is the Andromeda galaxy. No one is going to say t hat   
   >>> the galaxy is 2.5 million light years high, one would say it is 2.5   
   >>> million light years away. Conversely, for the plane no one would say it   
   >>> is 10 km away if it is directly over head. So at what point does   
   >>> something cease to be up and starts to be far.   
   >>>   
   >>> Now this might seem like being only semantics, and it is. But I think   
   >>> that discussing this particular point of semantics sheds light on how   
   >>> people perceive space. I have my own opinion on the matter but I will   
   >>> give it only after others have given their opinion, because I don't want   
   >>> this thread to be about discussing my opinion. I want it to be about   
   >>> seeing what are the different opinions out there.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Alain Fournier   
   >> I suspect it is mostly human nature.  At least around here, we   
   >> consider anything north of us to be "up" there.  Conversely, anything   
   >> south is "down" there.  Being on the east coast, anything west is   
   >> "out" there.   
   >>   
   >> Dean   
   >   
   > I suspect anything that's within Earth's atmosphere is "high" and even   
   > in most cases, if it's within the gravitational influence "high" often   
   > applies.   
   > Beyond that I think it's "out there" or "away".   
      
   So for you the moon is high not away?   
      
      
   Alain Fournier   
      
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